Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's antiterror police detachment is coordinating with its Malaysian counterparts on the recent capture in Johor of an Indonesian militant suspected of planning an attack in Indonesia, police said on Wednesday.

In a separate incident, police defused two bombs on Wednesday just before they were about to explode in police posts in the Central Java district of Klaten.

In Malaysia, Fadli Sadama was arrested on Oct. 13 while traveling on a bus to the state of Johor with two revolvers in his possession, a source close to the elite Densus 88 antiterror unit told the Jakarta Globe on condition of anonymity.

The 27-year-old suspect is accused of involvement in a violent armed bank robbery in Medan in August and of attempting to smuggle weapons into Indonesia.

"We dispatched seven police investigators to Malaysia on Tuesday to question Fadli Sadama," the source said. "He has told us how the Medan terrorist network under [jailed bombing suspect] Toni Togar... was expanding its capability by recruiting new members," the source said.

Media reports have said Fadli served prison time for his involvement in the Lippo Bank heist in Medan in 2003 in which two bank employees were killed. Fadli had also confessed to smuggling five assault rifles into Indonesia, the source said.

Malaysia's The Star daily reported that Fadli was planning to use the weapons to attack an Indonesian prison holding Toni Togar, believed to be the mastermind of the August Medan bank robbery that left one policeman dead and two guards wounded.

Toni, also known as Indrawarman, is serving a 20-year sentence at Pematang Siantar Penitentiary in North Sumatra for the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta, which killed 12 people.

Another police antiterror source told the Globe separately that the squad was also closing in on a man living in West Nusa Tenggara who they believed to be involved with the financing of an armed training camp in Aceh linked to hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. He declined to give more details.

Meanwhile, Agence France-Presse on Wednesday reported the discovery of two bombs that were placed in separate boxes containing plastic bottles filled with gasoline, at police posts in Klaten.

"When we found them around 8 a.m. today the timers were already on, but our antiterror squad managed to defuse them," National Police spokesman Iskandar Hasan said on Wednesday. No suspects have been named so far.